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Author: Colin Robson

  • Microservice and Azure Integration Part 3 : Adding Azure AppConfiguration

    In the previous post, I created the microservice and got it’s output logging to both the console and a file target using NLog. In this post I’ll be creating an AppConfiguration resource in Azure, reading a value from it in the microservice and then, acting accordingly on the value. 1. Setting up AppConfiguration in Azure2.…

  • Microservice and Azure Integration Part 2 : Setting up a simple application

    Now that the underlying structure has been created, it’s time to create a simple (very simple) application class to test that the microservice (or mini application at this stage) is working. This post is going to concentrate on the following three items. 1. Creating a simple output class. This class is simply going to output…

  • Azure DevOps, Docker and Pipelines – An unexpected twist

    So as part of the Microservice project i’m creating myself, I thought I’d use Devops Pipelines for the build process. Having never gone in-depth with creating a pipeline, I thought it would be fairly straightforward. Not so! My first problem that I came across was trying to pull my first branch into my development branch.…

  • Simple Microservice and Azure Integration

    This, and the following posts, are my interpretation of a simple guide to get a small microservice running on Azure, and mixing it with the security offered by AppConfiguration and KeyVault. Part 1 : Setting everything up to code So what do we need to start with? Firstly create the project in devops, then create…

  • Clean, Tested, Microservices

    Here begins a journey to get a better understanding of clean architecture within a microservice. I see lots of methods clean architectural coding, and often, as a bit of a newbie to this area, I can never settle permanently on an idea. I’m currently playing with this idea of a structure. MyApp.ApplicationMyApp.ComponentsMyApp.DomainMyApp.InfrastructureMyApp.PersistanceMyApp.Services A note about…

  • Monolithic Unit Ramblings

    Getting started with unit testing within the confines of an existing monolithic vb.net application is a very tricky thing to do. I always want to do the right thing, but sometimes the code makes the unit test biased, or a lot of the functionality that needs testing is nestled away within private functions. What do…